It’s a label I put on things to help remember that these people aren’t some neutral arbiters of what is good and/or beautiful, just that they’ve decided that they can make those judgments and keep out people they don’t like. Here, it’s just Netflix not getting to compete for a big award, but these are also the people…

That’s certainly what cultural gatekeepers call it.

The prestige that comes from having cultural gatekeepers proclaim your stuff good.

It’s not really a recent phenomenon—prestige horror goes in cycles in film, just like it does in literature.

Basically because control over women’s sexual autonomy and anti-choice politics are rooted in the eugenic movement of the early twentieth century, which is also the well-spring of Nazism.

I never realized he wrote Home Alone, but now that I know, that joke from Dogma makes a lot more sense.

The bit about needing to explain what rape is to an 8-year-old because other people think Back to the Future is more wholesome because it lacks curse words is why.

Doesn’t he play exactly this kind of person in Bamboozled?

94% of women who get an abortion identify as straight or heterosexual. 4% of women who get abortions identify as bisexual and fewer than 1% as lesbians.

(Willem Dafoe’s there too, dressed like a lady in order to woo the guards and also because he’s gay. Remember he’s gay? Gay, and a detective? A gay man with a job that’s not “interior designer” or “hairdresser?” God, this movie is subversive.)

I like her because she seems so earnest in whatever they put her in.

Came for this. Am not disappointed.

Well, if a lawyer used undue influence over an elderly woman who happens to be a beloved American icon and whose work rakes in millions, and that lawyer is able after that icon’s death to skim off a bunch of that money, I have a problem with that.

Well, it used to be required to fast during Lent, along with penance, prayer, and a whole host of other things that we no longer do. It was much more like Ramadan than it is now—the idea is that you are meant to be turning away from the physical world and toward the spiritual on the run-up to Easter.

It’s the Estate of Martin Luther King Junior who approves all of his likenesses/speeches for all uses, which is run by his sons and not by Bernice. https://slate.com/business/2018/02/the-mlk-estate-approved-that-dodge-ram-super-bowl-ad.html

...I have no idea what any of that means.

I’ve seriously avoided any and all smart assistant tech, but if I can start speaking to a computer by saying MOTHER, I might break.

It’s so tiring. I’ve spent years talking about how Franco might embody a kind of queer politics that is separate from specific sex acts—that radical queerness might be available to all kinds of people for the benefit of all people—and then it turns out he’s just a lying patriarchal dickface.

She’s from Waco, and her mom was Governor in Texas, so she has as much as (more than) a reason to be a Texas senator than Cruz, regardless of where her career has taken her in the meantime.

This is a bad take.